Cantica Gaudia

Ordinary Time, Early Summer: Tuesday Noonday Prayer

Opening: Arise, shine, for your light has come!

Psalm: When you bring us out from enclosure
We will be like dreamers
Our heads thrown back with laughter
Our throats vibrating with song
And the others will say

Yes
Great happenings
Have happened to them
The ones who have struggled
Long with their questions

Yes
Great things would have happened to us
And we would be dizzy with the joy of them
Drunk on water in an arid land
Our tears our joy’s seed
We’d go out weeping
And come back singing
Our arms full of sheaves

Reading: Who are we whom God has called? Few of us are wise, few are powerful. Yet to shame the wise God has chosen what the world counts as folly; to shame the strong, God has chosen what the world counts weakness.

In union with Christ Jesus, we are all children of God. Baptised into union with Christ, we have put on Christ like a garment. There is no such thing as Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; we are all one in Jesus Christ.

The Lord’s Prayer: Abba our God,
Whom the heavens disclose,
May your name be held holy,
Your authority come.
May your longing be fulfilled
As in heaven, so on earth.
Give us today the bread of tomorrow,
And cancel our debts
As we have already forgiven our debtors.
Do not draw us in
To sinful enticement,
But set us free
From the grip of evil;
For authority and power and glory
Are yours alone, for ever.  Amen.

Prayer: God of wholeness, you have created us bodily, that our work and faith may be one. May we offer our worship from lives of integrity; and maintain the fabric of this world with hearts that are set on you, through Jesus Christ, Amen.

Going Forth: May God who made both heaven and earth bless us. Amen.